Company Accountant

Overview

The Business & Opportunity:
Fantastic opportunity to join an established family run business, who are a market leading and reputable importing company. They now have an opportunity for a Company Accountant / Bookkeeper to take full responsibility for their accounts function. You will be based at their prestigious and impressive offices located on the North East side of Leeds.

Requirement:
Reporting to the Managing Director, together with regular liaison with the external accountant, you will carry out a hands-on, all-encompassing Finance role. You will take responsibility for daily end-to-end Finance, Payroll, HMRC and Audit compliances, together with month and year-end operations. This will include….

• Month End Reporting:
  Reviewing Balances;
  Monthly Cash Flow tracking;
  Reviewing Profit and Loss and Trial Balance;
  Ensuring ledgers are clean for external accountant review;
  Investigating errors and creating journals when errors are identified.
• Year-End/External Accountant Liaison:
  Ensuring Nominals for Paye, wage and pensions nominals accounts are reconciled with no discrepancies against HMRC and pension's provider portals;
  Final reconciliations for cashbooks (USO, EURO, GBP);
  Supporting the external accountant with year-end journals.
• Cash Handlings & Administrations:
  Handling daily cash and preparing banking;
  Managing petty cash including reconciliation and replenishment;
  Supporting general finance administration and record keeping;
  Bank daily recompilations GBP, USD, EURO;
  Purchasing foreign currency for business requirement and recording transactions accurately.
• Purchase & Sales Ledger:
  Posting UK supplier invoices;
  Recording credit notes;
  Supplier statement reconciliations;
  Resolving supplier queries;
  Preparing payments runs and postings for UK suppliers and international suppliers on a weekly basis;
  Monitoring age creditors;
  Recording differences and liaising with suppliers;
  Raising credit and debit notes and sending to suppliers as per request by the imports department.
• Other:
  Processing weekly and monthly payroll;
  Submitting RTI returns to HMRC;
  Vat preparation and submission quarterly.

• Experienced Bookkeeper or Accountant.
• Qualified to AAT Level 3 as a minimum requirement.
• Likely to have worked in an SME, where you have performed a varied role.
• Highly organised, self-motivated, excellent communicator and a good eye for detail.

• A competitive salary in the region of £32,000 - £37,500
• Free on-site parking
• Generous Holiday allocation

Interviews are to be conducted imminently, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience